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Visual Source Safe

Last modified: 20 April 2023

This page contains descriptions of the fields and options available when setting up VCS roots using Visual SourceSafe:

note

  • TeamCity supports Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 and 2005 (English versions only!).

  • Microsoft Visual SourceSafe only works if the TeamCity server is installed on a computer running a Windows® operating system.

  • Make sure the TeamCity server process is run by a user that has permission to access the VSS databases.

TeamCity has the following limitations with Visual SourceSafe:

  • Shared (not branched) files cannot be checked out.

  • Comments for add and delete operations for file and directories are not shown in VSS 6.0. All such operations will have "No Comment" instead of a real VSS comment. (This limitation is imposed by the VSS API, which makes it impossible to retrieve comments with acceptable performance).

VSS Settings



Option

Description

Path to srcsafe.ini

The full path of the VSS configuration file srcsafe.ini of the project repository. If the TeamCity server is run as a Windows service, make sure this path does not use mapped drives. If the file is placed on a network drive use syntax like \\vss-server\share\srcsafe.ini where vss-server is a server name and share is a name of the shared directory.

Project

Specify the mandatory path to the project tree, starting with $/.

User Name

Specify the mandatory name of the user on Visual SourceSafe server.

Password

Enter the password, that corresponds to the user name.